Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You must regard exams as a joint problem you must solve together . |
2 | Later , ashamed , Two-Dogs would picket screenings of the films he had appeared in , although he admitted in private that many times as a young man he had eaten well at a movie commissary when he would otherwise have starved . |
3 | She could use the sugar she 'd got for building bricks for a new shed I reckon , the amount she 'd got there . |
4 | The authors of a new report it commissioned suggest the Oxford to Birmingham stretch of the M40 was badly planned , with little consideration of its long-term implications . |
5 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
6 | He showed pictures of a recent trip he had made along the Cumbrian Way . |
7 | ‘ When you see clients on a professional basis you are connecting at a fairly deep level . |
8 | Since we can not count on people grasping much of the words at a first hearing it is the musical qualities which will contribute to the success or failure of a choral piece . |
9 | But governments now believe that if they are to tackle new subjects at a European level they must tighten their control . |
10 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
11 | You may find yourself in the midst of a lengthy disputation about the rights and wrongs of a particular request you made ( 'But you said another five minutes , mum ! ' ) . |
12 | While Oakeshott can be viewed as having embraced certain tenets of a liberal philosophy he is highly critical of the rationalistic and atomistic nature of liberal thought . |
13 | The coverboy faced a civil suit from the parents of a sixteen-year-old girl he 'd foolishly videoed making out with a women in his hotel bedroom . |
14 | The intertwined limbs against a dark tree she passed as she left the park seemed beautiful to her . |
15 | As we sat in the garden behind his surf shop and talked I could feel the long grass beneath my feet with a sensual awareness I 'd never experienced before . |
16 | and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it |
17 | When God selects individuals for a particular job he also equips them to do it . |
18 | As you know , I 've been on the look out for some years for a smaller company we could have a friendly merger with , but there 's nothing even remotely promising at the moment . |
19 | But again they were probably making use of much older tracks evolved for very different purposes For a short time they were important . |
20 | Having made his eccentric gesture , John returned to his position at the bow of the boat and to the strains of a rousing strathspey he was rowed back to the shore . |
21 | Lit up in their various colours against a white wall they can look spectacular ; unlit they take on an almost sculptural quality . |
22 | By working your experimental pieces into a narrow strip you will be able to see the effect of , say , a woven pattern braid , or matching plain and coloured collar pieces . |
23 | She put four mince pies in a little basket she 'd decorated earlier when she made the other table decorations , put on her coat and was out of the back door in a flash . |
24 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
25 | When kept as individuals in a mixed community they can bully other smaller species but they are in the main more peaceable than the average marine fish . |
26 | The lump on my head had lost a lot of weight during the night and after five minutes under a tepid shower I was n't feeling too bad . |
27 | On Friday the US charge d'affaires in Beijing was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to hear a ‘ strong protest ’ about President Bush 's decision to execute by administrative means the provisions of a congressional bill he had vetoed , allowing some of the estimated 40,000 Chinese students in the US to extend their visas . |
28 | When she came back into the office Dexter sat comatose , his eyelids drawn down like the venetian blinds , the only sign of wakefulness his fingers flicking absentmindedly through the pages of a gay magazine he had hidden inside one on gardening . |
29 | If you look at things from a feminist perspective they are , in fact , not equal . |
30 | In addition , if a property owner is manufacturing and selling goods in a competitive market he will be obliged to produce any given level of output of those goods at the lowest cost possible . |